Equestria's War

Equestria’s War

Chapter 1- The War is Finished
Rarity dropped to the ground, exhausted, staring at the ground in front her. Before her lie the once powerful Princess Celestia and her student Twilight Sparkle.
“Finally, the war is finished” said the dark blue mare from beside her. Rarity still couldn’t believe that she and Luna had defeated some of the most powerful ponies in all of Equestria.
“Took long enough” sighed Rarity.
“Well we best leave this place” whispered Luna “I wouldn’t want to be here when some of her more….. ‘loyal’ subjects arrive”
“Yes I suppose”
The two mares turned and started to walk what had once been a beautiful white castle. Now the sides were covered in dust, mud and grime that seemed several inches thick. Smoke still lay in a thick cloud around its large towers, as fires had been used to push Celestia’s soldiers out of the palace. So much had happened to the palace as well as herself in the last three months.
“Could that be right?” Thought Rarity “Was it only three months ago that this all started?”
The two ponies walked across the barren war field. Rarity thought back to when it had been a luxurious green pasture, but now what remained was a heavily trodden pool of mud, dirt and bodies of ponies who had fought for their freedom as well as some soldiers of the princess. Some of the ponies, who still clinged to life moaned, face down in the mud, choking on their own blood as the life slowly drained out of the irreparable wounds that covered their bodies.
“Why do things like this end in war, why can’t we be civil and just talk things out?” Rarity wondered “It’s because it’s all we have ever known, ponies always find ways of becoming more powerful, causing some inconceivable horror, or crime towards one another, it’s just the way we have all come to be” she thought to herself.
The two mares reached the castle without a word between them, and hooves that felt as if they were filled with lead. They both paused to gaze up at the immense towers of the once powerful Celestia. It seemed that even now palace guards protected it from the rebels of Equestria. The windows shattered holes in the walls from repeated pegasi bombing.
“Breathe deeply Rarity; remember that smell as the smell of the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into preserving our home, Equestria”
“Yes this is a great day for Equestria; it has finally been freed of any tyrannical reign of Celestia”
As Rarity stared at the burned and bombed out building, she felt like she was being torn apart from the inside, what she had been through to earn her freedom had opened doors she’d hoped that would remain closed forever. Her emotions swirled around her head, making the world seem fuzzy.
“Go and get some sleep Luna” Rarity said firmly, her voice almost cracking
“Is there something troubling you?”
“No”
“Well it sure seems like it, tell me Rarity, what’s wrong?”
“N-N-nothing…I just want to be alone for a while”
“I know what you’re going through Rarity, I myself am going through those same emotions right now, and I warned you that once you started the rebellion you couldn’t back out or try to drop off, Celestia would have hunted you down and tortured you until you gave up the plans for the hope of Equestria”
“Y-yes I know, but now that it’s over i-it just seems like I’ve become a monster. The things I have seen, the ponies I have killed, my family tortured to their very ends and then executed by Celestia as she forced me to watch. I just don’t know what to do now that we have won, my family and friends were my whole life, but now their all dead and gone. Just please go and get some rest so I can be alone”
“Rarity I am the princess of the night, I always raise the moon and stars, it seems like you’re the one who needs sleep. There’s an empty room just down the hall”
“Well if you’re sure” Rarity said unsurely. She began down the halls, barely believing that the castle finally belonged to the citizens of Equestria, and not that tyrannical monster Celestia. As she walked down towards end of the hallway Rarity felt ready to collapse from exhaustion and the sheer force of her emotions right there in the quietness of the carpeted hallway, but she forced herself on towards the end of the hallway. Rarity then peered into a room to her left that had its door slightly ajar. She’d been in the room enough times to know that it had once belonged to Celestia. Rarity nosed the doors open further and quickly crossed the cold marble floor.
“Just another example of power gone mad” thought rarity “Here Celestia was bathing herself in luxury while citizens in Equestria slowly starved”
She crawled in-between the silk sheets and only now allowed herself to feel the complete and utter loss of her friends, family, and what she used to be. Tears began to blur her vision as she sobbed into the pillow.
“How could I have done this to my family and friends?”
But deep down Rarity knew exactly how and why she’d done it, and she began to think to the beginning of those three long months.